Coastal storms back to beat GWU in overtime

By Special to The Star

Published: Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 02:16 PM.

CONWAY, S.C. – With 11:27 to play the Gardner-Webb women’s basketball squad led by 17 versus Big South Conference foe Coastal Carolina Saturday and looked well on its way to ending a two-game losing streak.

Yet 27 points by Coastal’s Angelica Henry let the host Chanticleers charge back and claim a 70-67 overtime victory at the HTC Center.

GWU, now 0-2 on the year in overtime contests, slips to 4-10 in conference play, 11-14 overall. Coastal is 12-13 overall and 7-8 in the Big South.

After scoring less than 50 point s in each of its last two games, in which the Runnin’ Bulldogs did not make a three-pointer in either one of those contests, the visitors scored 67 points and connected on seven (7-of-19) three-pointers in the loss.

Mayhana Dunovant led Gardner-Webb with a season-high 13 points, hitting four three-pointers. Olivia Parker and Jessica Heilig chipped in with 12 points apiece. Junior center Catrina Green hauled in 15 rebounds, six on the offensive glass, while freshman Lana Doran had nine points on three treys.

CONWAY, S.C. – With 11:27 to play the Gardner-Webb women’s basketball squad led by 17 versus Big South Conference foe Coastal Carolina Saturday and looked well on its way to ending a two-game losing streak.

Yet 27 points by Coastal’s Angelica Henry let the host Chanticleers charge back and claim a 70-67 overtime victory at the HTC Center.

GWU, now 0-2 on the year in overtime contests, slips to 4-10 in conference play, 11-14 overall. Coastal is 12-13 overall and 7-8 in the Big South.

After scoring less than 50 point s in each of its last two games, in which the Runnin’ Bulldogs did not make a three-pointer in either one of those contests, the visitors scored 67 points and connected on seven (7-of-19) three-pointers in the loss.

Mayhana Dunovant led Gardner-Webb with a season-high 13 points, hitting four three-pointers. Olivia Parker and Jessica Heilig chipped in with 12 points apiece. Junior center Catrina Green hauled in 15 rebounds, six on the offensive glass, while freshman Lana Doran had nine points on three treys.

A difficult 14-for-31 afternoon at the foul line (45.2 percent) proved costly for GWU.

GWU extended a 31-21 halftime edge to 44-27 before the Chants fought back. It was still 52-37 at the under-eight minute media timeout.

Gardner-Webb would keep a lead until Shatia Cole’s fastbreak basket for Coastal tied things at 59-all with 20 seconds left in regulation. Two field-goal attempts went astray for GWU and the contest headed to overtime.

The Runnin’ Bulldogs jumped up 63-60 in overtime but were outscored 10-4 the rest of the way.

Gardner-will host High Point on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Paul Porter Arena. It marks the women’s basketball program’s 1,000th game in its 37-year history.